Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 16:36:47 +0200 (EET) From: Michael.Bielicki@Linkdesign.com To: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Alex Povolotsky <tarkhil@asteroid.svib.ru> Subject: Re: YP-like mySQL thing Message-ID: <XFMail.990202163647.Michael.Bielicki@Linkdesign.com> In-Reply-To: <19990202142921.E84751@florence.pavilion.net>
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Why don't you use a password for root ??? On 02-Feb-99 Josef Karthauser wrote: > On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 10:28:13AM +0300, Alex Povolotsky wrote: >> Hello! >> >> I've made a patch to libc to allow YP-like extension of passwd file using >> mySQL. >> >> I can share it if anyone is interested, and I need an advise: how should I >> rebuild libc.so (or what else?) so that shared executables would pick >> libmysqlclient.so without rebuilding? > > How do you get around the insecurity of mysql? i.e. any user on the system > can pretend to be user root using the -u option to mysql. > > Joe > -- > Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: How many times have you booted today? > Technical Manager Viagra for your server (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) > Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@uk.freebsd.org, > joe@tao.org.uk] > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Michael.Bielicki@Linkdesign.com Date: 02-Feb-99 Time: 16:36:33 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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